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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27

The latest returns from the Prohibi-
ton election oflast month lii Tennessee
place the AUTHORIZATION majority
in the State at SITS, and the final
compilation will probably leave it at
very near this figure. This is a much
larger majority than the first report
foreshadowed. and shows q more de-
rided satisfaction with the present
state of things than was supposed to
exist. The amendment cannot be
again submitted for seven years, but
as they have local option in Tennes-
see there is nothing in the way of car
rying on a Prohibition canvass in the
various counties.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
MURDER.
A Startling Chicago Tragedy

A Startling Chicago Tragedy.
Last Sunday the 18th, Banker Stephen W.
Ransom OF Chicago was shot down just as
he was leaving church, by William Lee his
stepson, to avenge cruel wrong
done to his mother and sister.
William Lee had been at church watch
ing his step-father for several preceding
early and vent into the gallery. Hall an
hour before the services were concluded he
left the church and walked up and down
in front Of the building. Church was dis
missed at about 1915 O'Clock and about
one. third OF the people had come out when
Mr.. Rawson appeared, walking alone. Lee fol.
lowed him for about thirty feet. Mr.. Raw
son walked in q southeastern direction 60
ing toward Monroe street. He was sur
not cause the determined stepson to re-
frain from his work. Mr.. Rawson stepped
from the curb to the street, and had taken
only three or four steps further when Lee
came within three feet of him from behind,
holding q revolver in both hands and, pull
ing the trigger as rapidly as possible, shot
five times. The wounds are sup
posed to be fatal. Lee struggled 70 escape,
but was o"verpowered by several strong
arms and his revolver taken from him.
There was the greatest excitement, and
within five minutes at least five thousand
people had gathered.
Banker Rawson has long been a leading
light in the church, and was still an hon
ored member. notw outstanding that he
had been charged by his wife with perjury
and other ~offenses enough to make him. if
true, a veritable whited sepulchre. He on
the other hand alleged she. although
prominent in society and q beautiful won.
an in appearance, vas really a disreputa-
BILE, blasphemous. devilish.tempered ad-
ventures. who coveted only his money.
For q year OF more the two have been
fighting each other in the divorce courts.
and within a week the banker has filed
against her additional charges okadultery
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27

Russia has had a season ofunparal-
'teled hot weather. A recent letter
rom Moscow says: For the past
: month we have had no rain, not even
q passing thunder shower. There is
scarcely a green shrub or tree in the
city or suburbs. Everything is
-scorched, yellow and dust-laden. The
country presents the same parched
and withered appearance. Thenights
bring us little or no relief, the still SUI
locating sultriness of the day being
then only varied occasionally by very
slight southerly breezes, which are too
warm to be refreshing.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27

The Piedmont Fair, which opened
at Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 10, is said to be
successful. as an exhibit of the re-
sources of. that rich section Of the
South around the Georgia capital, in
Guiding Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee
and the two Carolinas. It is q region
rich in minerals, in timber and in az
ricultural resources; it boasts OF the
largest number Of factories and indus
tries of any portion Of the South; and
Il has shown q wonderful advance in
tho last ton years. A former exhibi-
ton, il 1882, gave Atlanta . wonder
I'LL impetus, and was the immediate
casa1e ~ large Investments q capital.
EhDprassnt Piedmont Exposition i
n1lcl better advertised and known
$3.50 r. predecessor.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27

Mrs. Augusta Gramer, the buxom
young wife of a Brooklyn man with
six children, eloped and went west,
whence she writes glowing accounts of
her adventures among Indians and
cowboys. She has settled down near
Walla Walla,' w. T., as leader of a,
band Of cowboys, by whom she is
treated like a queen, and whom she
invests with a mobility and gallantry
she did not find prevalent among the
denizens of Brooklyn"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
Shot at Her Father.in-law.

At San Francisco, Mrs. Clara Belle Nc.
Donald, who is the defendant in a suit for
divorce commenced by her husband, r. HI.
Mcdonald, vice president of the Pacific
Bank, went to the reception room of the
Baldwin Hotel, where she met her father.
in-law. Richard II. Mcdonald, presi.
dent OF the Pacific Bank, a well known
philanthropist and candidate for Govern.
or on the Prohibition ticket at the last
state election. Mrs. Mcdonald demanded
500, 600. which she agreed to accept as a
compromise in the divorce case, and upon
her father-in-law refusing to pay theamount
she drew a revolver and shot at him
three times. None of the shots took eff.
feet and the woman was placed under ar.
rest.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
News from WASHINGTON.

The .postofice department orders that
there shall be NO more advertisements ON
envelopes. II
The monthly payment system introduc.
Cd by the paymaster general OF the army
at the beginning OF the fiscal year has
proved q benefit to the service and will be
q permanancy.
The secretary of the interior has request
cd the attorney general to bring civil suit
against John Sawbridge and Silas Robin.
son, Of Tower, MIMI, for the value OF 278,-
900 feet OF lumber cut from sections 8 and
o, township 81, range Is, Minnesota. The
lumber 10 valued at$1.75 per thousand ON
tho stump.
The secretary Of tho interior has adjust
cd the following depreciation claims: 0. D.
Campbell, Brainerd. Mimi; amount, $135,
in 1881. by Rabbit river Chippewa In.
dians; finding; lnss sustained $75, and
that amount be allowed in full satisfaction
Of the claim. j. Conlon OF Missoula coun-
ty, Mont. amount. 1928, in 1877 by Nez
Perces Indians; finding: Evidence not SUI
fcient to establish claim.
According to returns from thirty of the
largest postoffices in the country for the
first quarter OF the fiscal year the gross
receipts show q gain of 6A per cent as com.
pared with the same period last year.
Brooklyn is at the read OF the list with
an increase of "a Oh per cent, Kansas city
next with 3O.S4 per cent and st. Paul
third with 1874 per cent. The gain at
Minneapolis vas 1874 per cent, over 1 per
cent creator than Chicago.
The following patents have been issued:
Wisconsin: E. K. Barker, Milwaukee,
alarm tag for druggists bottles; Hans
Birkholz, Milwaukee, spiral conveyor; A.
w. Burr, Beloit, file box. Richard Croker,
Mazomanie, and j. Diehl. Franksville, We.
hicle spring; A. M. Gray, Milwaukee, me-
chanical bob; B: M. Johnson. Racine, hame
fastener; F: A. Rathbun, Beloit. wheeled
scraper; A. B. Shaw, Racine, shade roller;
Carl syverson, Madison, forging machine;
Minnesota: E. c. Fisher, Minneapolis,
registering and recording scale beam and
weight: Charles Forbes, st. Paul, car brake
and starter; A. Garben, Minneapolis. hub
attaching device (%reissue); w. 7. Horne
and J. Danz, j., st. Paul, wood jacketed
shipping cans; j. Moser and E.. Nickel,
Crookston, railway tie: C. H. Sawyer, Min
neapo!is, mop: S. j. Wilson, Minneapolis,
name fastener.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
Items About People,

A. B. Stickney has organized two heavy
companies in Chicago to carry out his
gigantic cattle and transfer schemes.
Rev. Joseph H. Wilson OF Centreville,
Ohio, died recently at the residence of his
sister, Mrs. j. C. Hoblit.
Alexander H. Davis, OF Syracuse, N. Y.
has been nominated for congress by
the Democrats Of the Twenty.ffth dis.
trict.
In the midst Of q prayer meeting in New
York sensational divorce papers were pre-
sented Bradford T. Gilbert, in which the
widow OF Jerry McAuley, prominent in
missionary work, is made to correspond.
Fred Douglass delivered a lecture in
which he dwelt particularly upon the inter-
mlngling OF races. He predicted that the
Chinese would soon overrun this country
and take the place in the popular mind
that had been occupied by the negro.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27

Rev. Hugh O'Pentecost, one OF
Georges most trusted lieutenants,
ran for mayor of Newark, N. j., and
out OF a total poll OF over $4,000
votes he received only about 1900.
The George party had the most ex-
travagant expectations of sweeping
triumph in Newark. It is q large
manufacturing center and the ma
iority of the voters are those working
people on whom George mainly de.
pended.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
Latest by Telegraph.

Secretary Whitney will probably not re.
turn to active duty at the navy depart.
ment much before the arrival Of the presi.
dent. His health is bad.
Postoftices established: Dakota-Coul.
son, Stanley county. Montana: Grafton,
Meagher county. Postmasters commits.
sioned-Iowa: Peedee, H. M. Robinson.
Minnesota: Bath, Helen Christianson.
Fourth.class postmasters appointed
Minnesota: Golden Gate. w. Dey; Stacy,
j. s. McCurdy.
great sugar combination is the advance oil
the staple in price. Since the trust be-
came a fixed fact ~granulated sugar has
gone up three.eights OF a cent per pound,
and soft sagar advanced on an average
about ~one-quarter. =,
At Cincinnati, tho United States court
grand jury has found numerous indict-
ments in the Fidelity bank case, namely
seventy indictments against ex-President
l.. Harper; from seven to ten indictments
against Benjamin E. Hopkins, and as
many against Ammi Baldwin.
It is reported on good authority that
Assistant General Manager G. M. Cum
ming, OF the Union Pacific, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect Nov. 80,
and that if accepted T. L. Kimball, former.
~ traffic anager and now assistaht to
Vice President Potter, will be rendered the
position. .. @@S
The foundry and planning mill of the
Cleveland Stone company at Berea, four.
teen miles from Cleveland, burned. Loss,
$50, 900.
Illinois Grand Army men have formed
1.-THE Service Pension Association OF ILL
nois," to advocate service and other PEN
sion bills. This is a branch of a national
organization to be formed. /.
Col. H. A. Montgomery. president ofthe
Memphis Jockey Club, fell dead in the club
house just after the second race.
William r. Mccullough, chief engineer
of the steamer Comal, was arrested at
Galveston charged with numbering John
II. Graham, q coal passer, on the voyage,
from New York. Mccullough is said to
have poured q shovelful Of red-hot Goals
upon GrahaIH's head and beat him.
During the past few days persons sleep
ing in the open air at Calesuhe, Crefeld and
elsewhere have been frozen to death. The
severe weather which has prevailed is un.
~precedented ut this season Of the year.
Judge O'Brien, OF the court OF Queens
bench. granted = writ Of c~ertiorari to
squash the verdict Of willful murder rem
dered BY the coroner . jury against the po-
hceman who did the shooting 81 Mitchells-
town.
The Congressional Library Building
whom completed will be the largest struct-
ure ii Washington with the exception 81
the Capitol, and will cover Ill, 600 feet
81 space. It will cover about al, 900 feet
more than the new State, War and Navy
Buildings, and IA. 600 feet more than the
British Museum Library and shout ~.
GOO fset moro than the Royal Library 81
Bavaria. and shout 4 900 let more than
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
General News Items.

The Wabash & Western joins the other
lines in b~oycotting the Minnesota and
N orthwestern.
At Bessemer, Mich, the Tontine mine
has been attached by laborers to secure
claims amour ting to $4,000.
The Northern Pacific will ask for q tenn.
porary injunction restraining settlers from
filing on the lands recently thrown open to
settlement by the general government.
The Northern Pacific fled in the Bismarck
land Office lists OF a large number OF lands
lost in Minnesota, in lieu OF which selec'
tions in the Bismarck district are taken.
A fea rful epidemic OF typhoid fever il
raging at Iron Mountain. Mich. There arc
over n hundred people down with the
disease, and from one to seven deaths dai.
ly.
The general assembly OF the knights Of
Labor has voted to order a boycott against
the Indianapolis Journal and Sentinel. 1t
was stated that the proprietors OF these
papers had discharged all their employees
who were members OF the typographical
union or the Knights OF Labor.
When the supreme court OF the United
States met recently, the chief justice an.
nounced that the court had decided to re:
lease the Virginia state officials, brought
there under writs Of habeas corpus, upo1
their own recognizances, and had fixed
Nov. II next as the date for hearing the
argument.
Col. Bobleter, who had in command the
Second regiment. M. N. G., which took the
second prize at the Chicago encampment,
has returned home. showing to friends and
visitors at the capitol tho handsome
badges constituting a part OF the second
prize. There are fifteen badges, which
cost about $500.
The international military encampment
OF Chicago vas placed in the hands of a
receiver. Gen. Bentley and other man.
ayers OF the affair united in a petition to
Judge Garnett that a receiver be appoint.
cd. and the court granted their petition
and appointed A. II. Chettain, son oil
Gen. A. l.. Chettain, who has figured
prominently in the management, receiv.
er.
It is now expected that the 500 road
will be completed to Gladstone, on Lake
Michigan, by tho middle of next month.
There are a few bridges to be built between
Rhine.lander and Gladstone, but the ma.
terial for the structures is all completed
and ready to be placed in position. The
railroad docks at Gladstone are finished,
with a depth of sixteen fect of water on
n side, and every facility for handling
heavy lake freights.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27

Nova Scotia will try the trick of
taking the Americas cup out of the
custody of tho New York Yacht Club
next summer, a wealthy sydicate in
Halifax having decided to build a
yacht in time for the season of 'S9.
This attempt to do what the English
and Scotch yachtsmen have so often
Jailed to accomplish will excite more
amusement than alarm among the ex.
perts of New York and Boston.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
Cen. Butter and the Anarchists.

A short lime ago it was announced that
Con. B.. F. Butler would plead the Cause
OF the condemned Chicago anarchists be-
lore the United States supreme court. In
vestigation proved that the general had
been invited to do so, but that ne had
asked for time to make up his mind. a
reporter has learned that the general had
excepted the invitation.
Eyes sir, IT ID true that / am one OF the
counsel in this case, = said Butler, ''and !
expect to 50 to Washington ii . day or
two?'
"What success do ron expect In Wash
inston?"
well, 9 good deal viii depend upon the
writ 81 error. Then will come the subse-
quent proceeding before the supreme court.
CONSIDER THAT II II my duty 20 do my ~
most 10 nave my clients from sniisring fhs
penalty ~ tho law, and think every up.
right lawysr. will asEss With msthaf -
long - there bA loophols q essaps Tor
thsss mon u II q duty ~ light Tor thsm.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
the CONDEMNED ANARCHISTS,
Their Cases Before the Supreme
Court Of the United States.

Their Gases Before the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, J. Randolph Tuck.
er, Gen. Butler, Mr.. Black and MI. Solo,
mon, counsel for the condemned Anarch-
lists OF Chicago, appeared before the su-
preme Court of the United States in Wash.
ington, to move for q writ of error.
After reciting the history vi the case and
stating that several Of the prisoners were
now under sentence OF death, Mr.. Pryor
said:
He would call the attention of the court
to only two points, which he relied upon
to show that the case at the bar presented
federal questions, and that such acts
and questions empowered this court to
take jurisdiction OF it and to grant the
writ OF error prayed for. The first OF these
points related to the jury by
Which the prisoners were tried;
tion of the Fourteenth amendment to the
constitution, a law to regulate and govern
the empanelment of juries in the state
courts. By virtue of that law o jury for
the trial of a criminal case might be made
up, in part at least, of jurors who had
formed In opinion with regard to the guilt
or innocence of the persons a~ccused-jur.
ors who were partial. and even p~rejudiced
men. The Jaw made it possible to put in.
to the jury box men who had formed an
opinion as to the prisoners guilt which
could not be removed, except by strong evil
dence. This, he believed. had been done in
the case under consideration, and the Pc
%titioners asserted that this statute and the
effect given to it in the courts below had
deprived them of their rights, and was
about to deprive them OF their lives with
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
Record of


At Grand Forks, nearly all the buildings
ct the fair grounds were destroyed by fire.
Miss Carrie Worthinaton, DAUGHTER OF
Ex-C Congressman N. E.. Worthington, oil
Peoria, ILL.,, was accidentally drowned.
The large and elegant Kent house at
Lake Wood, OF Chautaqua lake, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, 1926. 900;
insurance, $50. 600. The flames originated
from a lamp explosion.
At Brookings, OAK, o the farm Of r. L.
Booker sparks from the engine set fire to
the stacks of wheat and burned 300
bushels, together with the machine. This
is the fifth time in eight years that Mr..
Booker has been burned out in Brookings
county.
At Syracuse, N. Y, fire broke out in the
millinery house OF Barney, Lambley e. Co.;
George G. Young e. Bro, adjoining, and
the hardware store OF Everson & Co. were
also destroyed. Barney, Lambley & Co.
$34O, 900; total insurance. $2O7. 900.
Emil Wagner, aged sixteen, wasinstant.
ly killed by a shock OF electricity at Hodg-
es' foundry, Houghton. While putting on
a chain pulley the chain came in contact
with IN electric wire. Wagner was
standing on the vet ground, this forming a
current through his body. The ~coroner's
jury returned a verdict blaming the Elec-
trio Power and Light company for negli-
gence or carelessness in placing exposed
wire where a current could be made with q
chain pulley.
At Butte, Mon, William Galley met with
q terrible death in the yards at the depot.
He went between the cars to uncouple
them. The engine backed the train to
alacken the coupling. As no signal was
given to stop the engineer continued to
back. Presently it was discovered that
Galley had caught his foot in a frog. the
train had pushed him DOWN and the wheels
run upon hin cutting him to pieces. His
heart was torn from his body and his
teeth scattered along the track. A cor
oner's jury pronounced the Montana
Union company guilty of culpable negli-
gence in not having the frogs and guard
rails properly blocked.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
Crimes and Criminals.

Harry Grabhorn, the Dillon, Mont,
wife murderer was sentenced to the peni.
Tertiary for life.
The people OF West Virginia have just
lyuched two robbers and propose to serve
20 m ore in the same way.
At San Francisco, Robert F. Morrow,
the m Millionaire, who is under indictment
on q charge of jury bribing, was placed un-
der arrest and confined in jail by order OF
the superior judge.
At Charleston. w. Va, Dan CUNNINGHAM,
the Eureka detective who stands charged
with having been the instigator of the rob-
berry Of Rev. Mr.. Ryan and others in Roane
and jackson counties, vas caught and
lynched.
Capt. Black t~elegraphed the Arbeiter
Zeitung from New York hat Gen. Ben
Butler had declared himself willing to as
lists in taking their case before the United
States supreme court. E~
Chief Mertz was captured in Michigan
and has been in jail in Brainerd, j. Bent
ley, was accused OF running away with q
team OF horses last spring belonging to a
Brainerd firm. He went to st. Cloud to
work with them there for his employers,
and then sold the horses, as charged and
lit out.
Joseph Labadie, the well known anar-
chist, had an interview with Spies ct al. a
few days ago. In reply to a direct ques.
ton Spies, Parsons and Fielden solemnly
asserted that they had never advocated
violence as q means to advance their views,
but on the contrary, they had urged a
peaceful overthrow Of society.
At Eau Claire, Wis, Judge Bundy SEN
fenced Alexander Mcdonald for attempted
years in the p~enitentiary. Dell Moon, for
obtaining goods under false pretenses, four
years; Abijah Moon, his son, forgery. five
years; Henry Zimmers. uttering forged pa
per, three years, and David Van Ostrand,
adultery, $500 and six months in jail.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27

Gen. Boulanger, the troublesome
factor in the army and political ad-
m~inistration OF France, who is under
suspension and arrest, now acknowl.
edges to the Minister OF War that his
recent offensive utterance in reference
to his official superiors, was "indis-
Greet" It is evident from recent ad-
vices that the popular dol was not
retired from the war Departm emit any
too soon.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
The governor of Montana announces
N his report that the Territory con-
tains 100000 human beings and
$500. 900 cattle and horses.

The new Indiana state capitol is
about finished. It cost So, OOO, 900,
and 500. 900 has been appropriated
Tor furniture. The building looks as
tit might have cost IS, 000,O 0O, and
Indiana is happy over it's good bar
gain. a~...
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27

The annual report of Caleb w. West,
governor of Utah, estimates the pop
ulation OF the territory at nearly
200 1000 and the assessed taxable val
uatlon of property at $35, 1865, s65.
The commercial affairs of the terri.
tory are said to be in a prosperous
condition.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-27
Nugaets Of Forelgn Mews.

The Disconte.G ellschaft or Leipsic, the
capital Of which is 5000. 600 marks, has
failed in consequence Of unla wful specula.
tion. Directors Jerusalem and Winkle-
mann, 81 the bank, have absconded with
IN enormous amount Of spells and all 81
tho banks stock. Berlin bankers are
largely interested.
Financial circles ct Toronto, were con.
siderably agitated whom IL leaked ont that
II. r. FORBES, % Forbes 4 CO.. private
bankers and brokers, had loft Toronto